The config is really well setup - i am using Omarchy on a second pc (main one being a mac). Some thoughts:
DHH has good taste - leaving besides application choices (some of which I changed, e.g <insert_browser> instead of Chromium, no 1password), the configuration defaults all make sense (coming from a mac) - especially the key bindings.
Arch Linux by itself is a bit scary and requires config to make it "nice" so basically Omarchy takes away all the choices and config learning / pain - this tweet is a good summary:
> I've poured in endless hours configuring Hyprland + Arch, GTK/QT theming/scaling, auxiliary apps, and more to give you a superb base that can either be taken as-is or used to keep tweaking.[1]
Tiling window managers are great - I have young kids using computers for their hw and they prefered this over mac - windows. Which suprised me as personally it is a much bigger change for me after decades of regular windows/mac window management.
Linux / Hyperland Pros:
- I had a old pc from 2014 - which I put a minimal fresh new install of windows 10 - and it has been dog slow enough that it was waiting to be replaced. After installing Omarchy (Arch + Hyperland) it's perfectly fast and usable.
Cons:
1. Its designed to be a single user setup - the idea being u use HD encryption and login straight to the one true user. So for a shared pc its not ideal - the way its currently configured I think you need to run the omarchy bash install script for each user and also update individually for each one - not ideal for a pc shared with kids.
Really interested to see where Omarchy ends up. Its also given my usability ideas for my mac.
Just using the TV web browser. Do you have kids? Mine are so easily distracted in the mornings. It spawned from the bewilderment of them having so few jobs to do in the morning (compared to us parents) and the complete lack of focus
Are you looking for something like `uv sync --upgrade`? This one should be re-assessing your dependencies (excluding version pinned ones of course) and regenerate the lockfile if I remember correctly.
Garmin Bounce[0] for kids, which is the watch which directly competes with this, has a 12-24hr battery life on LTE, although Garmin claims 2day battery.
You are absolutely right. I'm certainly not pro-Garmin here. Just anti-12 hour battery life for kids watches. It's just not compatible with the way young kids work.
Reading the comments to dcrainmaker's review, his kids' Bounces were getting 36 hours of charge whereas several commenters state they were barely getting 10 hours, certainly less than 24 hours of charge.
Seems like the energy used to keep the LTE connection up is the main problem, if all the users have the similar settings to minimize battery used by the Garmin Bounce.
If Google/Fitbit says the ACE LTE only lasts 16 hours, I'd hope their estimate is much more conservative than Garmin's and has a lot less variance. Otherwise, I can't see the ACE LTE lasting until end of school day.
I only have to charge my kid's bounce every 2 days, 2.5 days usually. I do not turn on the "Live Tracking" very often but location updates, boundary fence notifications, voice/canned messages work great.
My kids main demand is the following features, and this watch doesn't deliver on any of them:
1. Whitelist contacts for calling and text call - installing an app is a pain for older ppl / friends.
2. Music: Why not Google? This already has headphone support and the Pixel watch hardware which support musics.
3. Maps: in case they need to go A to B. WearOS has google maps, so this should be an easy add. School bus is on google maps for e.g, so being able to check time to leave would be great.
4. Battery: 16hrs at launch is not going to age well...
Overall, despite being in the market for this, would not buy.
Features kids didn't ask for and I don't want:
Gaming: There is a market for gamification, but it seems to me the product team went overboard and spent way too much time here at the cost of making a better kids watch. I have no doubt it can and will make some kids more active, but...
Kids have never needed a watch to be active, run around and imagine creative games. Although, sure, we did spend hours during breaks all surrounding the one kid with a gameboy.
This looks amazing! I really like the clear seperation of loading/prepping data, and presenting it.
Some requests:
Add simple examples and more clarity to the publish docs.
I assume most ppl would prefer to deploy via github actions[1], which the docs currently just link to a complex deploy file - can you please add some more documentation on this, or add an example of the simplest possible deploy file?
Suggestion: is it possible to use a interface (like in vercel) to connect to a github repo and build/publish on changes?
i cant imagine how it must feel to have her own vaccine injected in her, and know she saved so many lives through her persistence and the rare few that believed in her through her lowest moments.
I've been using https://nextdns.io/ - works fast and most importantly blocks a bunch of adds (user configurable), so makes browsing on mobile much nicer.
Duo is sad, and I feel Google is missing the point with all their tech improvements with Duo but no usability improvements.
I bought a Nest Hub Max for kids and grandparentst for video calls using Duo with family, and for one on one calls it's great especially for kids who move around, but with quantine the whole world (my version!) has quickly moved on to group video calls which ppl can enter and leave as they please.
Consequently everyone has stopped using Duo as it doesn't support that, and turns out you need to be able to easily chat with your calling group, another thing duo doesn't support.
Zoom, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger all work much better from a talking to a family group with varying tech know-how.
Zoom is a dedicated video but works much better than duo as you can make a link and drop it in a chat group for ppl to join. Duo has no such features!
So my fancy duo called machine is now just a photo display.
But you can't add or remove people in a call. You have to call everyone simultaneously up front. If you didn't add someone at the start, you have to hang up and start a new call, and hope that everyone else hangs up too so they can join the new call.
Duo has a ton of problems around establishing calls, and identity in general especially with multiple devices. It also has kind of a mystery meat UI with unlabeled buttons and undiscoverable interactions. And the artificial separation between text and video chat (Allo/Duo) never made sense in the first place, and continues to hamstring Duo even after Allo's death.
DHH has good taste - leaving besides application choices (some of which I changed, e.g <insert_browser> instead of Chromium, no 1password), the configuration defaults all make sense (coming from a mac) - especially the key bindings.
Arch Linux by itself is a bit scary and requires config to make it "nice" so basically Omarchy takes away all the choices and config learning / pain - this tweet is a good summary:
> I've poured in endless hours configuring Hyprland + Arch, GTK/QT theming/scaling, auxiliary apps, and more to give you a superb base that can either be taken as-is or used to keep tweaking.[1]
Tiling window managers are great - I have young kids using computers for their hw and they prefered this over mac - windows. Which suprised me as personally it is a much bigger change for me after decades of regular windows/mac window management.
Linux / Hyperland Pros:
- I had a old pc from 2014 - which I put a minimal fresh new install of windows 10 - and it has been dog slow enough that it was waiting to be replaced. After installing Omarchy (Arch + Hyperland) it's perfectly fast and usable.
Cons: 1. Its designed to be a single user setup - the idea being u use HD encryption and login straight to the one true user. So for a shared pc its not ideal - the way its currently configured I think you need to run the omarchy bash install script for each user and also update individually for each one - not ideal for a pc shared with kids.
Really interested to see where Omarchy ends up. Its also given my usability ideas for my mac.
[1]: https://x.com/dhh/status/1932130355663761794